Je reçois la confirmation de commande.

Because the subject is je.

The verb is recevoir (to receive), and in the present tense it changes like this:

• je reçois
• tu reçois
• il / elle / on reçoit
• nous recevons
• vous recevez
• ils / elles reçoivent

So je reçois is the correct form for I receive / I am receiving.

Reçois is pronounced roughly like ruh-swah.

A few useful points:

• re- sounds like a soft ruh
• ç makes an s sound
• oi in modern French usually sounds like wah

So:

• je reçois → roughly zhuh ruh-swah

Also remember that j in French sounds like the s in measure.

The ç is called a cédille.

It makes c sound like s before a, o, or u. Without the cédille, c before o would normally sound like k.

So:

• recois would suggest a wrong k sound
• reçois correctly gives the s sound

This spelling helps preserve the pronunciation of the verb recevoir in forms like je reçois.

French uses articles much more often than English.

In English, you can often omit the in certain contexts, but in French a noun usually needs an article unless there is a special reason not to use one.

So la confirmation is normal because confirmation is a specific noun phrase here.

Also:

• confirmation is feminine
• so it takes la

That is why you get la confirmation.

Here, de commande works like of order or order-related in English. It is linking two nouns in a fixed expression: confirmation de commande.

French often uses de + noun without an article when one noun is specifying the type or function of another noun.

Compare similar patterns:

• numéro de téléphone
• bon de commande
• confirmation de réservation

If you said de la commande, it would sound more like the confirmation of the order, referring to one specific order in a more explicit way. That is possible in some contexts, but confirmation de commande is a very common set phrase, especially in business or online ordering language.

Here de links confirmation and commande.

It often corresponds to English of, but translating it word-for-word is not always the best way to understand it. In this sentence, de shows the relationship between the two nouns:

• a confirmation related to an order
• a confirmation of an order
• an order confirmation

So de is doing the job of connecting the two nouns, not necessarily needing one single English translation every time.

Yes. Je reçois is in the present tense.

Like the simple present in French generally, it can correspond to different English present forms depending on context:

• I receive
• I am receiving

French does not normally use a special continuous form like English am receiving. The basic present tense often covers both ideas.

So the exact English interpretation depends on the situation.

Because standard French word order is usually:

subject + verb + object

Here:

• Je = subject
• reçois = verb
• la confirmation de commande = object

So the sentence follows a very normal French structure.

Yes, commande is feminine.

You usually learn noun gender together with the noun:

• la commande

That is the safest method.

Also, many nouns ending in -e are feminine, though not all of them. So the ending can be a clue, but it is not a perfect rule.

In this sentence, you do not see la directly before commande, but the noun itself is still feminine.

Yes, but that changes the tense.

• Je reçois = present
• J’ai reçu = past, specifically the passé composé

So:

• Je reçois la confirmation de commande refers to the present situation
• J’ai reçu la confirmation de commande means I received / I have received the order confirmation

Both are correct, but they do not mean the same thing in time.

Yes, very common.

It is especially common in:

• online shopping
• emails
• invoices
• business French
• customer service

You might also see related expressions like:

• numéro de commande
• bon de commande
• confirmation de réception
• confirmation de réservation

So this is a useful real-world phrase to remember as a chunk.